Re: kernel-headers downgrade failure

Joe Zeff <joe@xxxxxxx> · Fri, 03 Aug 2012 13:41:28 -0700

On 08/03/2012 01:09 PM, Ian Malone wrote:

On 3 August 2012 19:14, Joe Zeff <joe@xxxxxxx> wrote:

On 08/03/2012 03:26 AM, Suvayu Ali wrote:

That said, maybe the Fedora repos can keep more than one (say 2-3)
versions of the kernel in case some users need to downgrade and don't
have it in their cache?

By default, yum keeps the most recent 3 kernels installed.  How often do you
think users need to downgrade past that?

But not the kernel headers, or indeed any other package.

I was under the impression that they were kept until the kernel they 

applied to was removed.  And, as I understand it, the headers for each 

kernel are kept in a separate directory named after the version.  If 

they're not kept (and my understanding of their location is correct) 

then you should be able to get them back if needed, without downgrading 

the kernel.

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